Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed t...
Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide brown eyes and the way they nodded, the gnomy caps bo...
Cub had puffed up like a rooster when the article came out, taking it in to show the guys at the gravel company. He was impressed with all the celebrity in equal measure, the type of kid who had cut o...
Cooking is the great divide between good eating and bad. The gains are quantifiable. Cooking and eating at home - even with quality ingredients - costs pennies on the dollar compared with meals prepar...
Come on, people. Doesn't anybody remember how to take a big old knife, whack open a pumpkin, scrape out the seeds, and bake it? We can carve a face onto it, but can't draw and quarter it? Are we not a...
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
Cat, this is America, they let anybody vote. Crooks, wigs, even cookies like us. Dogs and cats, probably. Don't take Fido to the polls, he might cancel you out.
Carlo is safe because I don't really love him that much. If he stopped wanting me around one day, it wouldn't be so terrible. I wouldn't die.Hallie, I realize how that sounds. I feel small and ridicul...
Béene-béene.' The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a wa...
By pure mistake, his implementation is sometimes more pure than his intentions. But mostly it is the other way around. Mostly he shouts, Praise be! while the back of his hand knocks you flat.
But you could run out of gas on boyish, that was the thing. A message that should be engraved in every woman’s wedding band.
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
But it was no exaggeration, he’d witnessed this very thing in a market square in Boston: the crude effigy dangling from a noose, the monkey’s tail pinned to the stuffed trousers, the murderous crowd c...
But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that? It was a president, señora. Of what? Some place where they don’t have any oxygen? Of the United States. As I said.
But a spontaneous traveler inevitably will end up with the tummy gauge suddenly on empty, in some place where cuisine is not really the point: a museum cafeteria, or late-night snack bar across from t...
But Mama has this certain voice sometimes. Not exactly sassing back, but just about nearly.
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at His word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday without a lot of dubious mi...
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or at least paused to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea....
As the storm moved closer it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from the high clouds in long, curving gray plumes. It looked like maybe fifty or sixty fires scattered o...